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{{Infobox military person<br />
| name = Alexandre Chkheidze<br />
| birth_name = <br />
| image = Colonel Alexander Chkheidze in 1914.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{birth-date|1878}}<br />
| birth_place = <br />
| death_date = {{death year and age|1941|1878}}<br />
| death_place = Moscow<br />
| allegiance = [[Russian Empire]]<br />
[[Democratic Republic of Georgia]]<br />
[[Second Polish Republic]]<br />
| branch = [[Imperial Russian Army]]<br />
[[Polish Land Forces]]<br />
| battles = [[First World War]]<br />
[[Red Army invasion of Georgia]]<br />
[[Second World War]]<br />
| alma_mater = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Alexandre Chkheidze''', also known under his Polish name of '''Aleksander Czcheidze''' (1878–1940), was a [[Poland|Polish]]-[[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] military officer. He served with the rank of Colonel in the armed forces of the [[Democratic Republic of Georgia]] during the short period of its independence following [[World War I]].<ref name="Urushadze">{{cite book|author=Levan Z. Urushadze |title=Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) |editor=Paata Bukhrashvili |isbn=99940-0-539-1 |url=http://www.geocities.com/levan_urushadze_98/DRG.doc |format=doc |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5kmWkWalj?url=http://www.geocities.com/levan_urushadze_98/DRG.doc |archivedate=2009-10-25 |url-status=dead }} {{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/levan_urushadze_98/Georgia.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-10-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5ko1DThg9?url=http://www.geocities.com/levan_urushadze_98/Georgia.html |archivedate=2009-10-26 }}</ref> Following the Bolshevik occupation of his country, Chkheidze (along with thousands of other Georgian officers) migrated to Poland, where he received further training in the [[Higher War School]].<br />
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He was then admitted to the [[Polish Army]] as a ''contract officer'' and served as the Commander of Infantry (de facto deputy commander) of the [[Polish 16th Infantry Division]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} He took part in the [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|Polish Defensive War]] of 1939 and fought with distinction in a number of battles. Taken prisoner by the Germans, he was handed over to the [[USSR]] in accordance with the [[Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact]]. He was executed by the [[NKVD]] in 1941 in Moscow.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/68115/Chkheidze-Alexandre.htm |title= Chkheidze, Alexandre |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher= www.tracesofwar.com |access-date= 2024-06-30 |quote= Date of death: 1941 (Moscow, Soviet Union)}}</ref><br />
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